Police lied about Tony Timpa's death

[tulipsandroses]

No surprise there.

[link:https://www.dallasnews.com/news/investigations/2017/09/28/police-responded-911-call-help-died-happened-tony-timpa|
They were putting his life at risk for Restraint Asphyxia. They had to know this. That is what disturbed me most of all.

Then came the attempted cover up. Thankfully his mother was not having any of it.

When Timpa died, there was no shooting to report. His call to 911 was dispatched as a person in need of assistance. There were no reports of a homicide at 1720 W. Mockingbird Lane the night he died. There was no booking report because he never made it to jail.
His mother, Vicki Timpa, said police initially told her that her son had a heart attack at a bar and died. Another officer told her that a policeman wandering down the street found Tony Timpa passed out by his car, and then he died.
Still another officer told her, “Tony called 911, got in an ambulance, waved to the cops and then he collapsed,” she said.
She didn’t believe any of it. She’s seen her son’s body at the morgue -- there was grass in his nose, she said, and bruises on his arms.
A woman at the morgue told Vicki: Call Ambulance 47.


So she called the Dallas Fire-Rescue crew who responded that night after the officers were on the scene. Whoever answered told her: “Ask the police what happened,” then hung up, she said.
Two weeks after her son’s death, Vicki Timpa filed the first request for public records from the Dallas Police Department, scrawling on the form: “I want to know what happened.”

At the same time, an anonymous tipster contacted The News, asking a reporter to look into the death of a man he only knew by first name: Tony.
It took more than a month of searching public records for The News to find Dallas police incident No. 192631-2016: "Sudden Death. Complainant died by unknown means."
The victim was listed as the same person who'd called the police: Anthony Alan Timpa.

[Jake Stern]

1. Disgusting that there's folks on here excusing the cops

[Judi Lynn]

6. No kidding. I always assume they are Republican trolls when they show a remote identification

with actual conscious human beings.

Remind yourself of the kind of people whose company and opinion you've always respected: Democrats! Whatever is not like that has to be a <cough> something a little less a fully developed, full-functioning, disciplined, sane grown up.

Tune'em out. It takes practice, when they are so wildly off-track.

[safeinOhio]

2. Police call it

a "professional courtesy". I call it corruption on the same level of gang code. A violation of their oath of office and also a violation of the US Constitution. Very common and illegal.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

3. The Dallas PD sure does know how to lie, obstruct and manipulate (the facts).

Last September, Amber Guyger, a Dallas cop, shot an unarmed man, Bothem Jean, to death in his own apartment. She claimed that she thought it was HER apartment and that he was breaking in, despite the fact that he was sitting on the sofa watching a sporting event.

From the minute Mr. Jean died, Guyger and the Dallas PD have done everything they can to deny, lie, obstruct and manipulate this event. You can hear the 911 call she made. On tape, she is far more concerned about losing her job than providing ANY assistance to Mr. Jean as he lay dying.

She has changed her story more times than I can count.

Last week, it was revealed that NINE of the cases in which she was the arresting officer have been dropped from prosecution.

Something is very wrong at the Dallas PD.

It's getting harder and harder to support LEOs these days when too many stories just like Timpa's and Jean's surface.

[MagickMuffin]

4. However, the Enforcers thought it was extremely funny

Making jokes about his death. "Wake up, you'll be late for school, Moms making you pancakes" hardy har har. You enforcers just killed a man and then lied about it to cover your tracks.

My question: ARE THEY STILL ON THE FORCE???

[ConnorMarc]

5. What else is new?

[zeitgeist997]

7. We have to create change

There's too much corruption inblofak government and no effort to respect federal law. That's causing deaths because they are hiring folks who just want to steak pay checks and no one is saying that drugs aren't illegal on a federal level. The drug schedule law proves that and cocaine is less dangerous than weed according to the federal guidelines and weed is legal in some states so Texas don't have a leg to stand in cause again all state laws must fit under federal law, read the following and share even if you can't put the energy in to working to help

Rob Hutchison we need to all know that the 14th amendment demands that everyone have the same rights as someone not accused as a crime until the close of the legal system and the state can't make citizens give up their civil rights cause they are overwhelmed. If someone asks for a doctor and say they are schizophrenic then the police aren't medical professionals they can't make that decision legally they gave to rush a doctor. It doesn't matter that they're worried that could be abused and that's what I mean by giving up civil rights because they are overwhelmed. In a federal level they have no rights or no leg to stand on cause all state and local laws must fit under federal guidelines. This happens cause no one works. You have to work to report these inconsistencies or they never get changed that's how being gay was still technically illegal in some backwood places. The USA is about work but it really is that simple and our inactions caused Tony to lose his life. He would have gotten his life in track, he was so young and had such a bright future after overcoming his personal demons so we have to hold them accountable for robbing him of his future. The fact that it's because they can't do their jobs as state officials and fit their local laws under federal laws like a bad McDonald Franchise owner giving big Macs with out meat and sauce and charging $15 we have to make sure the buck stops here

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Welcome to DU. But "inblofak"?

[zeitgeist997]

10. Thank you

You're right. I meant 'in local government' I write from the soul and sometimes I miss typos being so passionate. I've talked to Vicki Timpa, his m,other. She shares my mom's birthday 8/20, and I called yesterday to wish her a happy birthday. I digress, though, she said she received a death threat that said she better change her heart or she could end up in the obituaries and had bullets left in her mailbox and her alarm company confirmed a laser scope set off her alarm twice.

The police are acting like common criminals who don't want to get in trouble and trying to bully a senior citizen who lost her son. Think about that. Tony was a schizophrenic which happens when your soul's internal path conflicts with societal pressures so it makes sense cocaine will relief that stress with the way it decreases inhibitions. The fact that he realized that wasn't the right way to deal with it and called for help but some meat head losers who thought cocaine to replace psych meds seemed stupid to them denied him of proper on time medical treatment is sickening. The 14th amendment says until a court case closes you must be treated as innocent and the Supremacy clause guarantees state and local laws can not supersede federal statutes so anyone innocent don't have to wait to be kneed on the ground and handcuffed before they receive medical treatment. Vicki's lawyer at Henley & Henley of Dallas, Tx didn't want to frame that 14th amendment argument. To me that's the sure fire way to win so I've been trying to raise awareness to put pressure and even contact the bar association if he refuses and I even sent Vicki an amended motion citing the 14th amendment and luckily she said the attorney will use it. We'll see though. She said he refused before after he said he didn't have experience in that and medical law but I made sure I detailed how to attack the EMT's because they allowed flawed local policy to impede constitutional protections, again violating the Supremacy clause.

Hopefully this case where the heat have died down after the mass shootings (I did see a post warning about not being alarmed about an exercise with crises actors before it happened. I'm not saying the shootings were false flags but I live in Texas and did see that. I can't find where though. I don't remember if it was a local facebook post or on craigslist. Cause I was reviewing rants and raves on the local Dallas craigslist and it wasn't that many posts the night before and started looking through other craigslists in TX. That's a wide margin of error and I'm not saying for sure but I'm know I saw that posting somewhere) this case with Tony Timpa and the lawsuit presenting a strong argument that proves his due process was violated may provide the change needed to end this police incompetence and the unethical way they cover things up.

[gopiscrap]

9. welcome to DU